English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Sugar Hill

Other OS name in the Parish of Bloxworth

Etymology

, a stretch of the Bere R . - Wareham road where it crosses Bloxworth Heath , perhaps identical in origin with Sugar Hill W 292 the first el . of which is scēacere ' a robber ' .